What coaster revolutionized the coaster industry?

mopeydude69

Sunday, February 17, 2002 5:14 PM

I think Stealth revolutionized the coaster industry because it was the first coaster to create a true flying sensation. Now, designers such as B&M (Air) and Arrow (X) are trying to develop more sophisticated flying coasters. What do you guys think?

Shaggy

Well, the way the question is formed I suppose you meant revolutionized the industry AFTER it became one.

So, with that understanding, then the coaster that most revolutionized the industry would be....

Racer at King's Island.

It single handedly re-started the modern day coaster craze. Read any book on the subject, ask most any coaster buff and they will tell you that Racer ushered in the second coming of rollercoasters 30 years ago.

MagnumForce

Sunday, February 17, 2002 5:55 PM

When Magnum XL-200 was built in 1989 it sparked the coaster wars that we are still experiencing today. Without all these parks trying to one up each oter with Coasters who know's where we would be today.

laurence

CoasterDude316

Sunday, February 17, 2002 7:35 PM

Id have to say Batman the Ride@ SFGAm look how many coasters inverts followed that and are still being built. ----------------- WHAT! My Top 5 Coasters: 1. Raging Bull(SFGAm) 2.Millenium Force(CP) 3. Deja Vu(SFGAm) 4.V2(SFGAm) 5.Cornball Express(IB)WHAT!

Jephry

Sunday, February 17, 2002 8:05 PM

As far as revolutionized, I will go with Magnum XL-200. Cyclone was great and all but the industry went crazy with Magnum. After it, so many different coasters came. ----------------- "The opposite of war isn't peace, its creation," Rent.

dmb-crush

Sunday, February 17, 2002 8:54 PM

FreakLogic said: "stealth did really nothing to the industry since B&M already had their flying coaster in concept many years prior to stealth..."

Actually, if I remember correctly, Stealth (the concept, at least) was in development as early as 1987. I know that B&M was planning their flying coaster before Oblivion (before 1998) but I think Vekoma had their concept first. An exact date would help, here, for B&M.

I can't stand people thinking that Vekoma's Flying Dutchman is a last-minute piece of engineering. There was an overlap in the two company's design times, but I think that the so-called "Race-to-the-finish" that so many think took place never really happened. The two models are both extremely complex machines that attempt to accomplish the same thing in two different ways. Quit playing favorites. No one says that two companies producing wooden coasters or traditional sit-down coasters are copying eachother. With this logic, you could say that B&M copied TOGO and Arrow with the stand-up coaster.

Anyway, I think that Arrow has redefined the industry many times: Matterhorn Bobsleds, Corkscrew (KBF), Magnum. Each ride somehow breathed new life into the industry. ------------- Yet may I, by no means, my wearied mind Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore, Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, Since in a net I seek to hold the wind. --Sir Thomas Wyatt

SLFAKE

Monday, February 18, 2002 4:26 AM

I will second Jim Fisher's vote.

1884 - Switch Back Rail Way

ca. 1912 - first coaster to use "up stop" or underfriction or what every type of wheels

1956 - Matterhorn - first tubular steel tracked coaster. Argue all you want about corkscrews and loops... with out tubular steel tracks even these simple elements would be hard (or impossible) to succesfully produce.

Boat69

Token29

Monday, February 18, 2002 5:27 AM

I'd have to say the magnum, but the phantoms revenge could prove revolutionary, proving you can redo a steel coaster. ----------------- Yea, you got it this is the infamous Token from the worlds greatest, KPU.